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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Solving Selfish/Colluding Mining
by
funkenstein
on 18/09/2018, 19:54:16 UTC

Thank you!  This looks correct to me, well put and nice plot. 

Also see:  http://vixra.org/abs/1504.0072



That plot is from a blog of a Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporter. He talks about various sophisticated statistical concepts, without showing the math, and even uses "miners will blacklist the IP address of selfish miners" as an argument. I wouldn't assign much credibility to that analysis, though it has some amount of truth, it is not a full, unbiased analysis of the situation. Even if his model is correct, selfish mining isn't the only attack I'm concerned about, as I have mentioned in previous posts of this thread.

I see, thanks.  No I didn't realize there was any relevance to BCH vs. BTC here.  My point is just that there is no "selfish miner attack", for any coin, any more than a karate expert need concern himself with a "hit yourself in the eye" attack by his opponent.  Withholding blocks won't have any positive effect for a miner unless the miner is engaging in some 51 percent attack.